Blind

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
— Shak.
Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall.
— Milton.
Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.
— Jay.
Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
The blind mazes of this tangled wood.
— Milton.
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. (Hort.)

Blind alley: an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.
Blind axle: an axle which turns but does not communicate motion.
Blind beetle: one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.
Blind cat: a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
Blind coal: coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal.
Blind door: an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door [or] Blank window, under Blank, a.
Blind level: a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon.
Blind nettle: dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.
Blind shell: a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.
Blind side: the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger.
Blind snake: a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes.
Blind spot: the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.
Blind tooling: in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.
Blind wall: a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater.
— South.
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind.
— P. Fletcher.
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky.
— Dryden.

The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
— Stillingfleet.
To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
A blindage. See Blindage. (Mil.)
A halting place. [Obs.]